11/10/05 Bull fence

Bull Fence Feeding bulls can provide a lot of wintertime exercise. I'm Jeff Keane; I'll be right back to explain. One winter we had to feed our bulls in a smaller area than normal and that can put fences in definite jeopardy. It's not so much the feeding of the bulls that gives a person exercise; it's rebuilding fences from bullfights. Now while a small area for bull feeding is a mistake and a problem the biggest complication we had this particular winter was to many bulls the same age and size. Usually we try to have bulls of different ages and this normally keeps peace and quiet pretty well since an older more mature bull dispenses all the verdicts and sentences fairly rapidly without much fan fare. I've seen the time when just a look from the big boy calmed the whole crowd. This group of bulls got along well until the dominate bull went lame and the others saw a chance to take over and a whole new pecking order or should I say mashing order had to be established. Well the boys really had some fun then - one would start bellowing and mouthing off about how bad he was, another would tell him he wasn't worth a space at the feed manager, the fight was on, and we would repair fence. Those bulls never did figure out who was toughest so we repaired fence about every ten days all winter long. If we headed to the bullpen to feed and heard the all-bull choir really hitting the high and low notes, we just turned around and got the fencing tools again. I'm Jeff Keane.